In this post we’ll profile a recently advertised service offering thousands of Facebook “Likes”, Twitter followers, and YouTube views, all for the modest price of a couple of hundred rubles, entirely relying on malware-infected hosts for supporting their infrastructure.

Basically, the service is abusing the trusted reputation of malware-infected Facebook, Twitter and YouTube users for the purpose of superficially increasing the popularity of a particular item located within these sites/social networking platforms.

Every malware-infected user counts as a separate “Like”, Twitter follower, or video viewer at YouTube, all of them unknowingly participating in these illegal marketing campaigns.

And what about the prices? The prices vary based on the number of requested marketing operations to be performed on behalf of the malware-infected hosts participating in the campaign, also known as bots.